NFL commissioner Roger Goodell last week celebrated Tom Brady’s retirement by hailing him as “an incredible competitor and leader” and noting “his stellar career is remarkable for its longevity” and “sustained excellence.” Just seven years ago, Goodell and the NFL were using media allies to brand Brady as a cheater, wrongly suspending him after a federal court battle, and eventually ending and hiding the results of an experiment that would have all but cleared him of… Source link
Read More »Biden’s grade on the economy rises to A-
President Biden has an enviable problem: The economy under his watch is doing a lot better than voters give him credit for. In the latest update of the Yahoo Finance Bidenomics Report Card, Biden’s grade on the economy rose from B+ to A-. This isn’t our opinion. It’s what the numbers tell us. We developed this methodology at the beginning of the Trump administration, with the help of Moody’s Analytics, and we’ve kept it in place for Biden. We determine each president’s grade by… Source link
Read More »Pfizer eyes $100B year on pandemic boon for 2022
The pandemic has been transformational for many businesses, but few can boast near-global domination the way Pfizer (PFE) can. The Pfizer/BioNTech (BNTX) vaccine accounts for 70% of all doses in the U.S. and E.U., as of February 5, according to CEO Albert Bourla Tuesday. He added that the vaccine and other Pfizer medicines reached 1.4 billion patients in 2021, or about one in six people on Earth. As a result, the company saw a 92% increase in operational revenue growth in 2021 alone, of which… Source link
Read More »Stars leaving first round of 2022 drafts
It’s the second week of February. We don’t even have an NFL champion yet. But fantasy football discussion is a year-long pursuit. Today’s assignment is to look at name-brand players who were previously first-rounders but likely to move out of that exclusive club next season. The arrow is moving in the wrong direction. Heck, in some cases, maybe the cheese has gone bad. Everything here is written in pencil, of course. Although I am a staunch advocate that high-volume Best Ball drafting is… Source link
Read More »Stock market is starting to ‘show signs of cracking and bursting’: Harvard lecturer
The explosive growth in passive trading, a fear of missing out, and a blind faith in “celebrity CEOs” have contributed to froth in high growth tech names, according to Harvard lecturer and renowned writer Vikram Mansharamani. Now, the author who made a name spotting market bubbles in his book “Boombustology: Spotting Financial Bubbles Before They Burst,” says another one may be about to pop. “I believe a passive investing bubble has been brewing and may, in fact, have started showing some… Source link
Read More »Google’s latest Pixel 6 update breaks things, again
Google can’t seem to catch a break with software updates for the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, the first phones that are powered by the company’s own Tensor chip. After having to pull an earlier update that caused a rash of bugs and connectivity issues for early buyers of the phones, Google tried to get back on track by taking its time with the January update. That seemed to go okay, and yesterday, the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro both received the February software release (with more bug fixes in… Source link
Read More »Peloton is also losing the CEO of its biggest acquisition ever
The LinkedIn posts of departing Peloton employees (and those people in the industry willing to help them) are piling up on Tuesday, one comes from the former CEO of Precor. Peloton spent $420 million to buy commercial fitness giant Precor in December 2020 as it sought to build out production capacity to support its then views of strong future demand. It stands as the company’s largest acquisition in its history. The acquisition gave Peloton 625,000 square feet of U.S. manufacturing capacity… Source link
Read More »Google account hacks dropped by half after pushing two-step authentication by default
Nudging users toward security works. That’s the top-line finding four months into Google’s initiative to enroll users in two-factor authentication by default, detailed in a blog post to coincide with Safer Internet Day on February 8th. In October 2021, the company announced plans to turn on two-factor authentication by default for 150 million Google users who were not currently using the service and to require 2 million YouTube creators to use it. In the latest post, Google says it
Read More »Google brings a smarter search history page to Chrome – TechCrunch
Google today announced a couple of updates to Chrome that bring, among other things, a new way to resume your past searches in the browser. This new feature, dubbed ‘Journeys,’ is now rolling out to Chrome on the desktop and will smartly group past searches by topic. The browser will automatically highlight this new experience when you start searching for a related term, or you can head diretly to the new Chrome History Journey page once it’s enabled on your browser. Image… Source link
Read More »Google account hacks drop 50% for 150 million who got 2-factor login
Passwords are plagued with problems. Brett Pearce/CNET … Source link
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